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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Mar 20, 2024 15:07:55 GMT
Unfortunately that does not make the top 7. Like I said it's Something I enjoy . It's a long established business look at auction Houses like Christies Yes I'm sure it is enjoyable, but what makes the top 7 are businesses that require the least effort for the most profit. There are far easier and more profitable businesses than that. One thing he does point out is that statistically most new businesses will fail. So you have to think in terms of what is very unlikely to fail which is good profit. The ones he lists might surprise you. Have another go. |
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Post by Pacifico on Mar 20, 2024 16:23:35 GMT
My old man was involved in Tobacco smuggling back in the day to supplement his pension - he was raided a couple of times by Customs & Excise but they never found anything..  So your father was a Crook he wasn't also a Black Marketer in the War to was he. he was not a crook - he didn't get caught...  |
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Post by Fairsociety on Mar 20, 2024 16:30:40 GMT
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Post by Fairsociety on Mar 20, 2024 16:39:31 GMT
Does anyone remember that postal gold scam, send us 'your old gold and jewellery' we'll send you a prepaid envelope and you just send us your jewels, if you don't accept our offer we'll post it back to you ..... yeah as if, I wonder how many even got made a offer, I bet they never saw their jewels or money ever again, why are people so bloody gullible, you can't feel sorry for them.
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Post by borchester on Mar 20, 2024 17:31:15 GMT
Tobacco smuggling is apparently more lucrative than drug smuggling. So after illicit canabis farms, of which there must be thousands, I imagine iffy baccy must be fairly profitable. My old man was involved in Tobacco smuggling back in the day to supplement his pension - he was raided a couple of times by Customs & Excise but they never found anything.. Ditto.
I had family who owned a small coaster that ran from Spain to the Baltic. Good folk, albeit a bit old fashioned. They sinned mildly all week but went to church on Sunday to apologise. And they ran French brandy into the UK and German spirits into Norway. They got caught a couple of times but put the fines down as the cost of doing business. Plus, they had been doing it for so long that they did not really believe that it was illegal
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2024 19:57:03 GMT
Does anyone remember that postal gold scam, send us 'your old gold and jewellery' we'll send you a prepaid envelope and you just send us your jewels, if you don't accept our offer we'll post it back to you ..... yeah as if, I wonder how many even got made a offer, I bet they never saw their jewels or money ever again, why are people so bloody gullible, you can't feel sorry for them. Still going, with many happy customers. Cash4gold, Google it. They're not all scammers. Probably based in the jewellery quarter of Birmingham - lots of reputable firms there deal in unwanted gold, etc. I'm not saying none are scammers, mind! |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Mar 20, 2024 20:09:11 GMT
Does anyone remember that postal gold scam, send us 'your old gold and jewellery' we'll send you a prepaid envelope and you just send us your jewels, if you don't accept our offer we'll post it back to you ..... yeah as if, I wonder how many even got made a offer, I bet they never saw their jewels or money ever again, why are people so bloody gullible, you can't feel sorry for them. None of the 7 are scams. You are barking up the wrong tree. Tabloids will have you believe that scammers make all the money, but they are by far not the richest of people. I mean the man himself employs over 1000 people, and I bet he makes more than most scammers. Scammers are losers, often low intelligence, which will be found out at some point. |
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Post by ProVeritas on Mar 20, 2024 20:36:15 GMT
Can you guess what it is?
To be fair, I think we need some context here. The claim comes in the form of a list of 7 in order of how good they are. This is the view of a professional who advises large numbers of people on business advice aimed at the person or perhaps people who think, I'd like to start my own business, and ask which business is the one that is going to be the easiest to do, least risk, described as "very profitable" and is the kind of business that you have a high chance of succeeding in as we check through the stats on which work and which go bust. The chap who gives the advice employs over 1000 people, so you can be fairly confident his information is good in the sense of management consultancy. He's not someone trying to sell a pyramid scheme or any crap like that. I'll publish the list of 7 after I've seen a few ideas from you guys. I want to see how far off the mark you are. You never know, you might hit the right answer first time.
Old, old adage: Those who can, do; those who can't teach / advise. All The Best |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Mar 20, 2024 20:46:03 GMT
Can you guess what it is?
To be fair, I think we need some context here. The claim comes in the form of a list of 7 in order of how good they are. This is the view of a professional who advises large numbers of people on business advice aimed at the person or perhaps people who think, I'd like to start my own business, and ask which business is the one that is going to be the easiest to do, least risk, described as "very profitable" and is the kind of business that you have a high chance of succeeding in as we check through the stats on which work and which go bust. The chap who gives the advice employs over 1000 people, so you can be fairly confident his information is good in the sense of management consultancy. He's not someone trying to sell a pyramid scheme or any crap like that. I'll publish the list of 7 after I've seen a few ideas from you guys. I want to see how far off the mark you are. You never know, you might hit the right answer first time.
Old, old adage: Those who can, do; those who can't teach / advise. All The Best OK then to prove your virility as a businessman, you should take a punt and see if you can at least guess the type of business anyone could start which hits the top 7. If you are really smart you could figure out the number one slot. I've given a few clues in this thread. After all, starting a business is a punt in itself. You have to keep abreast f the trends in society, look at what is going up and what is going down. If more sophisticated still you may apply some economic theory to it, but I can say this much. You could guess the top one just by common sense. We're not talking anything obscure and out of the ordinary. All the top 7 serve a need which is commonplace in our society. |
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Post by Bentley on Mar 20, 2024 21:35:39 GMT
Probably only fans or some other sex industry.
Anyway …one of my relatives bought a clothes shop which never did well , in fact they were pretty poor for a couple of decades.
The husband was a very good rep but he wanted to go into business .
The irony is that he did quite well teaching business studies after he sold the shop .
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Post by ProVeritas on Mar 20, 2024 21:49:12 GMT
Old, old adage: Those who can, do; those who can't teach / advise. All The Best OK then to prove your virility as a businessman, you should take a punt and see if you can at least guess the type of business anyone could start which hits the top 7. If you are really smart you could figure out the number one slot. I've given a few clues in this thread. After all, starting a business is a punt in itself. You have to keep abreast f the trends in society, look at what is going up and what is going down. If more sophisticated still you may apply some economic theory to it, but I can say this much. You could guess the top one just by common sense. We're not talking anything obscure and out of the ordinary. All the top 7 serve a need which is commonplace in our society. Water Company: You're selling something everyone needs, so you have a captive market. Once you've grown your customer base you be as negligent as you want in terms of corporate management. Because if the company ever looks likely to fail the Government will step in and use Public Revenue to prop the company up - can't have people with no access to water can we. Shareholders flock to invest in such precisely because of that; they know they are protected from the inherent risk a shareholder should hold, and they know the company will be allowed to take on unsustainable debts to artificially inflate the share dividends. Senior management will also not be held accountable for the failing business and will use the aforementioned debt to inflate their pay packets and egos. Meanwhile you'll be able to reduce operating costs by illegally dumping raw sewerage almost at will, and never be held accountable for it. Or, if you are ever held accountable for it you'll be able t rinse the customer base by adding a surcharge to fund investment you should have been funding from prior profit, but which you pissed down the drown on executive pay deals and unwarranted share dividends.. All The Best |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Mar 20, 2024 22:15:40 GMT
OK then to prove your virility as a businessman, you should take a punt and see if you can at least guess the type of business anyone could start which hits the top 7. If you are really smart you could figure out the number one slot. I've given a few clues in this thread. After all, starting a business is a punt in itself. You have to keep abreast f the trends in society, look at what is going up and what is going down. If more sophisticated still you may apply some economic theory to it, but I can say this much. You could guess the top one just by common sense. We're not talking anything obscure and out of the ordinary. All the top 7 serve a need which is commonplace in our society. Water Company: You're selling something everyone needs, so you have a captive market. Once you've grown your customer base you be as negligent as you want in terms of corporate management. Because if the company ever looks likely to fail the Government will step in and use Public Revenue to prop the company up - can't have people with no access to water can we. Shareholders flock to invest in such precisely because of that; they know they are protected from the inherent risk a shareholder should hold, and they know the company will be allowed to take on unsustainable debts to artificially inflate the share dividends. Senior management will also not be held accountable for the failing business and will use the aforementioned debt to inflate their pay packets and egos. Meanwhile you'll be able to reduce operating costs by illegally dumping raw sewerage almost at will, and never be held accountable for it. Or, if you are ever held accountable for it you'll be able t rinse the customer base by adding a surcharge to fund investment you should have been funding from prior profit, but which you pissed down the drown on executive pay deals and unwarranted share dividends.. All The Best I think you are applying the right kind of analysis there and as such you almost hit one in the list, but unfortunately water companies are not something an average person with average savings and average access to finance can make work. |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Mar 20, 2024 22:27:28 GMT
Probably only fans or some other sex industry. Anyway …one of my relatives bought a clothes shop which never did well , in fact they were pretty poor for a couple of decades. The husband was a very good rep but he wanted to go into business . The irony is that he did quite well teaching business studies after he sold the shop . All the ones on the list are quite normal and don't pertain to any of the seven deadly sins/seedy stuff. Nor do clothes shops fit any of the categories.
Actually considering the list I have in front of me I think we have already learnt one or two things here. People immediately think, oh it must be something dodgy or in some way taboo. Actually you people will really kick yourselves when you find out. It a kind of lateral thinking type question, obvious when someone points it out, but totally invisible when just left to guess. This must be like what a school leaver fells like. They think what the heck am I going to do for a job, not really having a clue which path is a good one from the information that surrounds and is presented to them. Many teens do go for this social media influencer thing, since everyone else is doing it, but that isn't on the list either!
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Post by Bentley on Mar 20, 2024 22:36:43 GMT
Probably only fans or some other sex industry. Anyway …one of my relatives bought a clothes shop which never did well , in fact they were pretty poor for a couple of decades. The husband was a very good rep but he wanted to go into business . The irony is that he did quite well teaching business studies after he sold the shop . All the ones on the list are quite normal and don't pertain to any of the seven deadly sins/seedy stuff. Nor do clothes shops fit any of the categories.
Actually considering the list I have in front of me I think we have already learnt one or two things here. People immediately think, oh it must be something dodgy or in some way taboo. Actually you people will really kick yourselves when you find out. It a kind of lateral thinking type question, obvious when someone points it out, but totally invisible when just left to guess. This must be like what a school leaver fells like. They think what the heck am I going to do for a job, not really having a clue which path is a good one from the information that surrounds and is presented to them. Many teens do go for this social media influencer thing, since everyone else is doing it, but that isn't on the list either!
Only fans is a legitimate business and the point regarding the clothes shop was about an indulgent pipe dream and the irony of being a business failure but teaching business studies . What we have learned here is that you have the advantage of having the list in front of you and no one else here has. |
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Post by Totheleft on Mar 20, 2024 22:42:59 GMT
So your father was a Crook he wasn't also a Black Marketer in the War to was he. he was not a crook - he didn't get caught... crook noun UK /krʊk/ US /krʊk/ crook noun (CRIMINAL) Add to word list [ C ] informal a very dishonest person, especially a criminal or a cheat: These politicians are just a bunch of crooks. Synonyms criminalculpritevildoerfelon specializedthe guilty partymalefactor formaloffenderoutlawperpetratorvillain UK informalwrongdoer formal Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples a dishonest person 🤗 |
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